Commentary

Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, is getting heat over his “childless cat lady” remark. During a Fox News interview in 2021, Vance told host Tucker Carlson, “We are effectively running this country via the Democrats, via our corporate...

As Prime Minister Holness has been quick to highlight, July 22 was a red letter day. He wasn’t referring to the fact that it was his birthday, but rather to it being the hottest day our planet has experienced since records began. Climate change is...

The government must explain why, after more than a decade, it cannot solve the problem of malfunctioning air-conditioning units in Jamaican courts, especially those at the heart of the judicial system, the Supreme Court, in downtown Kingston....

The Government of Jamaica’s (GOJ) relief and recovery responses to Hurricane Beryl are well advanced. So why am I still writing about multi-layered disaster risk financing? Because there isn’t a better opportunity to further advance public...

‘Give a dog a bad name and hang him’. Not many of us remember this maxim from our Students Companion and Angus McIver’s First Aid in English. Yet, it always rings true. Different from lawyers, we behavioural scientists have our own notion as to...

US President Joe Biden surrendered to reality on Sunday when he announced that he would not seek re-election in the 2024 presidential race. He did it with grace, saying he was placing country above ambition. Biden’s long-term dream of serving two...

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the...

A happy development is that both Fayval Williams, the education minister, and Nigel Clarke, at finance, have listed repairing schools among the priorities in the Government’s post-Beryl recovery efforts. What we have not heard is where educational...

By credible accounts, Nayoka Clunis is somewhere in the United States, perhaps practising, if she can stomach it, to participate in the hammer throw at some future athletic event. Rightfully, but for a monumental cock-up by the Jamaica Athletics...

The Paris Olympic Games officially begin tomorrow (Friday, July 26). The greatest living athletes of our generation are in the French capital, set to compete in the first post-pandemic Olympics – you have to feel for Japan in 2021, I’m sure the...

This newspaper doesn’t know whether Floyd Green’s conduct in the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) matter rises to the level of contempt of court. A judge of the Supreme Court will decide that question if Larry Robertson’s complaint against Mr...

Every government in recent times has highlighted the importance of social-intervention programmes for crime control and reduction outcomes. And they have done so despite the known weaknesses in the existing projects and programmes. They understand...